#temper

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

#democracy #form #government #ideal #tempered

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#result #temperament #unique #work

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#after #building #came #collecting #day

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#anything #everything #never #temper #will

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#commercial #commercial success #did #i #little

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#good #greatest #temper

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#cat #cats #certain #does #dog

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#beat #believe #could #death #elderly

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#become #cannot #difficulties #dreads #early

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. ↗

— Susannah York

#because #hard #i #me #reign